03-07-2013, 01:47 PM
Albert Rossi Wrote:Thanks for the heads-up, Charles. I'm not sure what reasonable in this case would be, but having been an academic I am used to spending on hard-to-get books, so no problem there. Yes, I believe I ordered the better edition of A Certain Arrogance. From the way you describe Evica, his interests seem to have cut across a whole spectrum of literary and anthropological issues; he seems from your description to have been quite brilliant. I take it his work engages/dialogues with the likes of Victor Turner and Clifford Geertz? Looking forward to reading him, too.
I'm afraid that I can't answer your question. Surely George Michael was interested and well read in the areas of symbolic/interpretive and cultural anthropology, and I'll check with Alycia Evica to determine if works by Turner and/or Geertz were in his rather large personal library (currently at the University of Hartford).
I'm eager to read your evaluations of the books.
Charles Drago
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You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene